英:[ʌnˈmenʃənəbl]
美:[ʌnˈmɛnʃənəbəl]
英:[ʌnˈmenʃənəbl]
美:[ʌnˈmɛnʃənəbəl]
un·men·tion·a·ble
uhn men ch n bl
unmentionably (adv.)
adjective
not fit or allowed to be mentioned or discussed : unspeakable
an unmentionable topic
noun
one that is not to be mentioned or discussed: such as
unmentionablesˌən-ˈmen(t)-sh(ə-)nə-bəlz plural pants sense 1
unmentionables plural underwear
"不应该或不应该提到的",1833年,来自 un-(1)"不" + mentionable(adj.)。 1806年开始使用 unmentionables "裤子"的幽默用法(见 inexpressible); 从1910年开始作为"内衣",都是基于"不应该在有礼貌的圈子里提到的服装"的概念。
The first known use of unmentionable was in 1657
unmuzzleverb
to remove a muzzle from
unmuffleverb
to free from something that muffles
unmovedadjective
not moved : remaining in the same place
holding to the same position
unmoved by their arguments
not disturbed emotionally
unmoved by the sad news
unmoraladjective
having no moral quality or relation : being neither moral nor immoral
unmoraladjective
having no moral quality or relation : being neither moral nor immoral
unmitigatedadjective
not lessened or made less severe
unmitigated poverty
absolute sense 3, downright
an unmitigated liar
unmistakableadjective
not capable of being mistaken or misunderstood : clear, obvious
unmistakableadjective
not capable of being mistaken or misunderstood : clear, obvious
unmercifuladjective
not merciful : merciless, cruel
unmentionableadjective
not fit or proper to be talked about
1 Perfect sized to hide unsightly rolls of toilet paper or any other unmentionables.
2 And while self-abasement is part of the comedian’s toolbox, there’s something depressing about watching as a chortling Michelle airs her unmentionable area while spraying herself with self-tanner.
3 Her shop, LFrank, now has the room to display Frankfurt’s inaugural line of slips, dressing gowns, camisoles, and other ladies’ unmentionables.
4 Why do people have so much trouble mentioning unmentionable state?
为什么人们提起这件难以启齿的事时这么麻烦?
5 Lewis, she talks about God, politics and other unmentionables, and gently exhorts her readers, as she does herself, to find joy in a bleak and chaotic world: a leftie guru of optimism.
6 Made in the shade Stave off wrinkles and other unmentionables by taking a break from the sun and getting a spray-tan instead.
7 Nobody yearns for a Vera Drake society where sex is unmentionable and the only popular song is the equivalent of a covered-up piano leg – but not everything needs spelling out.
8 I am worried that we may be overdoing it, taxing its meaning, to conceal an unmentionable reality that we’ve somehow agreed not to talk about in public.
9 At the very center of the problem is the naked cold deadness of one’s own self, the only reality in nature of which we can have absolute certainty, and it is unmentionable, unthinkable.
10 Well, breakfast was sort of like that, only instead of the clothing problem, we had an unmentionable cancer problem.
11 More than two decades on, he heads a five-member studio with offices at London’s Imperial Laundry, a Victorian complex where royal unmentionables were once washed.
12 We at the Musee d’Orsay are in receipt of your latest painting, “The Origin of the World,” which depicts a nude woman on a bed focused squarely on her unmentionable parts.
13 With his pants unzipped and his unmentionables out, he begins to urinate on the floor.
14 All the unmentionable subjects were now on the table because a measure of mutual trust had been recovered.
15 As to shopping environment and convenient service, they are unmentionable.
至于购物环境和方便的服务,他们是无法言喻的。
16 Mental illness was simply unmentionable.
17 “I read it somewhere. You write the thing out that you can’t deal with, the unmentionable, write what you want to do and then burn the pages. Slowly.”
18 The women are rivals, but as they play a piano trilling about lace and melodies — and everything else unmentionable — they form a rueful sisterhood that’s as emotionally persuasive as it is narratively dubious.
19 Burnside is powerful at it, and yet the reader feels the whole time that they too might have missed the whispered real story, and that they are just eavesdroppers on an unmentionable tragedy elsewhere.
20 And sure enough, the unmentionable noun in this play’s title carries exactly the weight of bewilderment, anger and awe with which all the characters regard one another.
1 不可提及的
2 内衣
underclothes undies bodyclothes B.V.D. small waist vest underwear underpinning undergarment elastane underclothing underlinen underdress underwaist skivvies shirt undershirt sark semmit endomysium
3 说不出口的
4 用复数
dingbat work other good thing service part game down school line second list lead hour step store future content art due term oil picture wait dog fund sport supply letter round attention load ball stick bag custom glass lesson quarter god chain wave relation yard manner bowl bone circumstance rain yellow depth tap affair dozen consequence shade shake bean chamber mystery tail suck desert acre nerve sail hop premise horror rope stake gut sweat colour mesh Jack bearing cheer compliment elder scrap stripe vibration acoustic ethnic fry making preliminary marble creep firework honour dart flick swarm goggle cloak sounding domino precinct checker fixing folly thematic shiver Trot meander shudder eyeglass lancer frill draught heuristic skittle gob polemic sullen nicety rounder gape dungaree histrionic macrobiotic weeper hysteric tenpin bedcover unpleasantry furbelow vesper pantaloon megrim fiddlestick ninepin escallop agogic knuckle-bone
5 裤子
pant trouser trollybobs pants britches breeches kecks trowsers kick peg continuation indispensable indescribable Cossack jean inexpressible pantaloon trousers bags bag galligaskins salopettes reach-me-down stride unutterable trou stovepipe Breeches Bible
7 说不出口